While it is 60 degrees in Washington, DC today, it was in the 20s last week, and my skin is feeling it. While I love winter, my skin doesn’t. If you are like me, you might experience some winter skin problems such as, excessive dryness, flakiness, discomfort, roughness, itchiness, and redness. Over the years, I [...]
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Perfectly Perfect: 3LAB’s BB Cream
For the last few months BB cream has been a hot buzzword in the DermStore office. Hearing that it’s been a huge success in Asia for years, it got me thinking: what is it, how do I get it and is it really that amazing? Lucky you and thanks to my beauty product junkie ways, [...]
New Year, Fresh Start Thanks to Perricone MD
2012 is here and I’m ready to get my skin and body back in order after an intense holiday adventure of traveling and overindulging. A big fan of Perricone MD products and recent facebook like to Dr. Perricone’s facebook page, has me thinking of doing an overhaul to my diet to achieve radiant, healthy skin. The [...]
4 Steps to a Younger You: iS Clinical
Signs of aging skin are an unavoidable concern for all of us. Sadly, it’s a fact of life but it doesn’t have to be something that consumes us. There are plenty of ways to help reverse aging skin and iS Clinical is making it easy for us with this four step anti-aging system. This Anti-Aging [...]
Top 5 Skin Care and Beauty Products For Holiday Travel
Between Christmas shopping and preparation for holiday travel, I find myself in a dilemma to consolidate my beauty and skin care regimen down to a mere 5 products. I figure this sacrifice to the holiday travel gods will keep me from having a National Lampoon Christmas Vacation experience. Here are my top five products for [...]
The Anti-Aging and Healing Skin Care Benefits of Emu Oil
My boyfriend’s mom is in town for the holidays and as we were sitting in traffic on the ride home from the airport, she asked me if I’d heard anything about Emu Oil being used for skin care purposes. While I have heard that Emu Oil is very beneficial for the skin, I wasn’t exactly [...]
What really gives our age away?
By Ada Polla In I Feel Bad About My Neck, Nora Ephron famously said: “Our faces are lies and our necks are the truth.” To “necks” she might have added “décolleté” and “hands”. Indeed, my dermatologist father Dr. Luigi Polla, creator of Alchimie Forever, always told me that to know the true age of a [...]
The Mean Reds
What’s a girl to do when she’s got redness, hyperpigmentation and broken capillaries that no products can fix? She leaves her skin in an expert’s hands and gets a photo facial, that’s what she does. And so the search begins to find the magic treatment that will diminish all my hyperpigmentation from breakouts and a [...]
Latest DermStore Office Buzz: Gluten-Free Skin Care Products by MyChelle
The latest buzz around the DermStore office has been MyChelle Dermaceuticals. The main attraction: all products are gluten-free , cruelty-free and paraben-free. What more could a person ask for? So below are a list of our favorites and why you should give MyChelle a try. Beth: “The MyChelle Apple Brightening Cleanser does an amazing job [...]


























